Maple Marauders Inaugural Season in Review

4,166,615 fans which ranked 7th in the ABL saw some exciting baseball this year in Maple.

Maple was more than 10+ games back at several different points in the regular season but, they never gave up and ended up catching San Francisco to win the Billy Martin Division by 2 games in the Thurman Munson League. Going 7-13 vs. SF did not help.

Maple overcame a slow start that was bombarded by injuries to their strongest offensive position entering the season;  their OF. However, once everyone was back and healthy things start to get rolling in fine fashion. The last few weeks of the season though the team struggled and despite not playing their best baseball were able to over take SF who crumbled down the stretch.

Is He Ready For the Show?

Your starter goes down with an injury. Your bench player's defense isn't offsetting the pathetic bat that he carries. Your setup pitcher blows his third straight game and your patience is at an end. Any number of things can drive us GMs to the madness that is trying to decipher AAA stats and how they might translate into the big leagues. Today we'll take a look at Major League Equivalencies in the ABL.